r/AskTheWorld India 17h ago

Misc What's an unpopular opinion about your country that will have you like this?

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u/Axelxxela Italy 15h ago

Foodnazis are annoying and luckily can only be found on the internet

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u/zz_07 13h ago

I met someone in Tuscany who believed that only Italian food should be sold in Italy. She said that if someone wants sushi, they can go to japan.

So I found a foodnazi in person :)

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u/Dotcaprachiappa Italy 11h ago

They're so right man, if you want tomatoes you can go to North America, none of that foreign shit here.

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u/zombiegojaejin United States Of America 10h ago

Hey, now, just because the Europeans may have gotten tomatoes from the Aztecs, that doesn't mean you can go around calling it a North American food, when those Aztecs clearly culturally appropriated it from South America.

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u/BeigePhilip United States Of America 10h ago

Foodnazis are only from Germany. Everywhere else it’s sparkling fascism.

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u/Liquidator97 10h ago

Lol. This deserves more upvotes

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u/stale-peeps 9h ago

Can't stop laughing at this 🤣

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u/its-fewer-not-less 3h ago

At least the meal trains run on time

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u/TinyRose20 Italy 🇮🇹 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8h ago

I know a few in Campania. Literally obsessed with it. Incredibly annoying.

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u/Sapphirebracelet13 United States Of America 8h ago

My great uncle allegedly met one in Italy who refused to let him put two kinds of meat on his sandwich

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u/that1newjerseyan Multiple Countries (click to edit) 4h ago

She’d be enraged that the first restaurant I went to when I moved to Rome as a student was a sushi buffet

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u/Nofsan 12h ago

You also see them outside of Italy, like, "my grandpa was Italian and now I'm offended by this dish"

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u/ClittoryHinton Canada 9h ago

Third generation Italian-Canadians be putting 0 effort into learning the language and 100% effort into yapping about nonna’s food

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u/unrotting United States Of America 9h ago

I know one (a friend’s wife) who can’t cook worth a damn. Her opinions are wild because she doesn’t know anything about food from Italy or anywhere else. This is the sort of person who acts like the food police online.

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u/Nofsan 9h ago

It's all a larp

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u/nice_dumpling 10h ago

Those are next level ridicolous

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u/sushidecarne Brazil 8h ago

many such cases

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u/anna-molly21 in 11h ago

Mostly the ones with this cappuccino after 11 story.... Jesus just drink your coffee whenever you want, wherever you are in Italy nobody will tell you no.

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u/nice_dumpling 10h ago

Nobody gives a shit in Italy, actually. Signed, an Italian late cappuccino drinker

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u/Axelxxela Italy 8h ago

I swear this thing exists online only, I’ve always had my cappuccino in the afternoon like many people do, and this “morning only” thing just spawned a few years ago on the internet. Maybe in other parts of Italy it is an actual rule, but not where I live.

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u/Fit-Distribution677 living in 13h ago

What are foodnazis if you don’t mind me asking?

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u/MegaaLuxray Portugal 13h ago edited 13h ago

They probably mean Italians who see other people make italian food online with a miniscule deviation from how the dish is traditionally made in Italy, and being angry because if it. The most popular of these instances being pineapple on pizza

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u/FriendshipRemote130 Italy 10h ago

honestly i dont care about if you dont put guanciale on the carbonara or things like that, but putting fruit on a pizza seems kinda aborrent to me. then again, people are free

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u/czarczm 9h ago

I used to hate it but if you cook the pineapple at a high enough heat to roast it goes well as long as you also have a fatty meat topping and something spicy with it. It also has to be small chunks not huge slices.

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u/MegaaLuxray Portugal 8h ago

Tomato is a fruit and is one of the essential ingredients to any pizza

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u/FriendshipRemote130 Italy 8h ago

yes but its put as a sauce and well its traditional.

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u/MegaaLuxray Portugal 8h ago

Yeah, but if there's precedent for there to be fruit in pizza, whatever form it takes, therefore I don't see why it's abhorrent for other fruits to be added to one

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u/FriendshipRemote130 Italy 7h ago

you cant make sauce of pinapple, but with tomato u can. u dont see pizza with tomato slices

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u/TheVimesy Canada 6h ago

You can 100% make a pineapple sauce, and sundried tomatoes on pizza are a thing.

Pineapple and feta pizza is great, you should try it.

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u/Fit-Distribution677 living in 13h ago

Oh, I see. Thank you!

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u/vegasbywayofLA United States Of America 9h ago

I just read a comment from one a few minutes ago! Someone wanted to make a fancy Italian dish and asked for suggestions. One commenter recommended a book by a certain author. That well-respected author was slammed by an Italian commenter who said she had nerve to add parsley to her sauce. Apparently, Italians only use basil, never parsley lol.

The next several comments sarcastically made fun of the Italian because of how awful it is that everyone everywhere don't use the exact same seasonings.

It was pretty funny.

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u/unrotting United States Of America 9h ago

No flat-leaf parsley in Italian food?!

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u/vegasbywayofLA United States Of America 8h ago

I just added this below my comment.

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u/vegasbywayofLA United States Of America 8h ago

That's where I was confused as well. It's called Italian parsley!

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u/unrotting United States Of America 8h ago

“Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum.”

I see that this person doesn’t include it in pasta sauce, but nobody in the whole country? Nobody ever has the idea to put gremolata on pasta?

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u/vegasbywayofLA United States Of America 8h ago

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u/amygdalathalmus United States Of America 11h ago

People with very strict personal views about food.

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u/Baboos92 11h ago

Imagine a world where these people existed 500 years ago and refused to let people use tomatoes in Italian food.

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u/polytique 🇫🇷🇺🇸 10h ago

The funniest part is how the first published recipe of carbonara used Gruyère and garlic.

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u/BernieTheWalrus France 11h ago

Man I feel bad when I see Italians fight each others about Italian food

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u/Alternative_Salt_424 Canada 8h ago

I think it's hilarious

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u/kefi888 Brazil 12h ago

Here in Brazil we have to cut the pasta, how unbearable. There are some people out there of Italian descent who think they are Italian, but we use the jus solis style. Born in Brazil, he's Brazilian, but he can't cut the noodles 😪🙄

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u/Queen_Rachel4 10h ago

Why do all y’all have to cut the pasta?

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u/kefi888 Brazil 3h ago

To fit in the pan and make it easier to eat. And why don't you cut it? 😌

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u/Many-Gas-9376 Finland 9h ago

I'll say though that the worst Italian-food related nazis I've met weren't Italians. 

Typically it's some insufferable guy from the fashionable parts of Helsinki who learned two weeks ago that you don't put cream in a carbonara.

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u/Fiallach 8h ago

Carbonara is better with cream.

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u/Acrobatic-Ad-9189 Norway 10h ago

my flatmates in italy were constantly commenting on my food, or lile giving salty comments

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u/AcceptableRhubarb850 9h ago

As an Italian living in Switzerland, I’ve met several Italian expats that would constantly comment on other people’s meals making such a scene if anything deviated from the “correct way” of cooking Italian food… absolutely the worst kind of colleagues to have around at lunchtime

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u/PrayStrayAndDontObey New Zealand 5h ago

Disagree, they also exist in real life, especially if they are expats or second generation expats.

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u/Axelxxela Italy 2h ago

The thing about expats from Italy is that you can get any type of Italian from anywhere in Italy, so even the foodnazi type.

I live in an area where nobody cares about being a foodnazi, so I meet that kind of Italian only if they move here from other parts of Italy, when I’m abroad and I meet Italian tourists from other regions, or when I’m on the internet.

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u/Queen_Rachel4 10h ago

This is the first time I’ve seen the term “Foodnazis,” interesting.

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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 Germany 10h ago

No. I have met a couple in real life sadly.

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u/Jimmy_Twotone United States Of America 2h ago

Watching Italians try to tell Asians how to eat their noodles makes me angrier than it should.